If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Neil Armstrong RIP

Options

25-08-2012 8:10pm

#1

efb

Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2003

Posts: 34650

Just announced on France 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt1BwWE2gA

16

Comments

Options
#2 25-08-2012 8:11pm
OU812

Registered Users Posts: 6,046 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 5035

A giant leap.

0
Options
#3 25-08-2012 8:12pm
irishgeo

Registered Users Posts: 9,446 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2001

Posts: 8834

efb wrote: »

Just announced on France 24

just seen this tweeted on newstalk acccount.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt1BwWE2gA

RIP Neil

0
Options
#4 25-08-2012 8:13pm
Lapin

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2010

Posts: 17812

R.I.P.

0
Options
#5 25-08-2012 8:19pm
efb

Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2003

Posts: 34650

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825

0
Options
#6 25-08-2012 8:19pm
tricky D

Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2003

Posts: 9090

RIP

0
Advertisement
Options
#7 25-08-2012 8:23pm
tony81

Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2012

Posts: 568

I wonder did he have any deathbed confessions? *cough* moon landings faked *cough*

RIP

MOD: No more posts like this please

0
Options
#8 25-08-2012 8:24pm
RedXIV

Registered Users Posts: 8,432 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2005

Posts: 8096

RIP, the man has one of the greatest legacy's ever, thats an incredible thing to leave behind

0
Options
#9 25-08-2012 8:25pm
dlofnep

Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2004

Posts: 19674

What a great life he had. Had the chance to walk on the Moon. I would say it was a very fulfilling life. RIP.

0
Options
#10 25-08-2012 8:26pm
Sunnyisland

Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2010

Posts: 10138

R.I.P.

0
Options
#11 25-08-2012 8:29pm
efb

Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2003

Posts: 34650

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BisS5JxeUW0

0
Advertisement
Options
#12 25-08-2012 8:32pm
nervous_twitch

Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 775

Rest in Peace; a life lived.

0
Options
#13 25-08-2012 8:32pm
Myrddin

Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2007

Posts: 31650

tony81 wrote: »

I wonder did he have any deathbed confessions? *cough* moon landings faked *cough*

I hate using this emoticon, but jesus christ :rolleyes:

The absolute definition of The Right Stuff, RIP

0
Options
#14 25-08-2012 8:34pm
Oafley Jones

Registered Users Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 6400

I was in Cape Canaveral at the start of the month and under the Saturn V there's a plaque on the average stats for each astronaut in the Apollo Program. To my horror I discovered that were about my age- and height - and that's where the similarities ended, each one was a incredibly impressive individual that made me go **** me I'm wasting my life on xbox and the internet. Armstrong was a naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, astronaut, first man on the moon, Professor and all around American hero. Makes you look at yourself a bit harder... again amazing and RIP.

0
Options
#15 25-08-2012 8:34pm
Cienciano

Registered Users Posts: 14,285 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2012

Posts: 14144

Not many men will have a place in history like him. RIP

0
Options
#16 25-08-2012 8:34pm
efb

Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2003

Posts: 34650

tony81 wrote: »

I wonder did he have any deathbed confessions? *cough* moon landings faked *cough*

RIP

Here's something for that cough

0
Options
#17 25-08-2012 8:35pm
MidlandsM

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2010

Posts: 5538

rip...

0
Options
#18 25-08-2012 8:40pm
stoneill

Registered Users Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2009

Posts: 3354

That leaves 8 moon walkers left alive now from the original 12.

Charles "Pete" Conrad died in a motorcycle accident at age 69.
Alan B. Shepard died of cancer at age 74.
James Irwin died of a heart attack at age 61.

The guys who are left are:
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Bean,
Edgar Mitchell,
David Scott,
Charles Duke,
John Young,
Jack Schmitt
Eugene Cernan

As these guys age - fairly soon there will be no one alive who shared the experience of walking on another celestial body.

0
Options
#19 25-08-2012 8:41pm
cyrusdvirus

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 3518

RIP.

0
Options
#20 25-08-2012 8:43pm
cyrusdvirus

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 3518

stoneill wrote: »

That leaves 8 moon walkers left alive now from the original 12.

Charles "Pete" Conrad died in a motorcycle accident at age 69.
Alan B. Shepard died of cancer at age 74.
James Irwin died of a heart attack at age 61.

The guys who are left are:
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Bean,
Edgar Mitchell,
David Scott,
Charles Duke,
John Young,
Jack Schmitt
Eugene Cernan

As these guys age - fairly soon there will be no one alive who shared the experience of walking on another celestial body.

There are very few 'first' men left

Off the top of my head I can only think of Chuck Yeager.

0
Options
#21 25-08-2012 8:45pm
Duff

Registered Users Posts: 5,542 ✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2006

Posts: 5209

R.I.P. Took some balls to do what he/Apollo 11 did.

0
Advertisement
Options
#22 25-08-2012 8:48pm
The Hill Billy

Registered Users Posts: 22,771 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2006

Posts: 20412

\\//n

0
Options
#23 25-08-2012 8:53pm
Lapin

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2010

Posts: 17812

gatecrash wrote: »

There are very few 'first' men left

Off the top of my head I can only think of Chuck Yeager.

Bruce McCandless is another.

He made the first ever untethered space walk.

0
Options
#24 25-08-2012 8:54pm
2 stroke

Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2006

Posts: 2858

R.I.P.

0
Options
#25 25-08-2012 9:02pm
bnt

Registered Users Posts: 12,986 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2008

Posts: 12664

As a former USN officer, he'll be entitled to burial with full military honours in Arlington National Cemetery. Whether he wanted that is another question: a fairly modest guy, as I understand it.

From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

0
Options
#26 25-08-2012 9:03pm
cyrusdvirus

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 3518

Lapin wrote: »

gatecrash wrote: »

There are very few 'first' men left

Off the top of my head I can only think of Chuck Yeager.

Bruce McCandless is another.

He made the first ever untethered space walk.

Damn, totally forgot that one.

John Young and Bob Crippen would be there too.

0
Options
#27 25-08-2012 9:03pm
The Sparrow

Registered Users Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 3457

What an amazing legacy to leave behind.

RIP.

0
Options
#28 25-08-2012 9:09pm
kelle

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2003

Posts: 3159

May he RIP. He made the most amazing achievement ever.

0
Options
#29 25-08-2012 9:13pm
AugustusMinimus

Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2010

Posts: 4371

RIP

I always feel very uneasy when I hear that Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon.

It is always viewed that Hillary and Norgay were the first people to set foot on top of Mount Everest.

In this case, Armstrong and Aldrin should be viewed as the first people to have set foot on the moon. Just as Hillary and Norgay climbed the mountain together, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon together.

0
Options
#30 25-08-2012 9:16pm
Skyknight

Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭

Join Date: December 2008

Posts: 383

As many astronauts (and cosmonauts), he was both an inspirational and humble human being, and a amazingly talented engineer and test pilot. Godspeed Neil.

HIGH FLIGHT
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Ex astrum nos adveho, quod ut astrum nos vadum reverto. - From the stars we come, and to the stars we shall return.

0
Advertisement
Options
#31 25-08-2012 9:17pm
The Sparrow

Registered Users Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2006

Posts: 3457

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

RIP

I always feel very uneasy when I hear that Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon.

It is always viewed that Hillary and Norgay were the first people to set foot on top of Mount Everest.

In this case, Armstrong and Aldrin should be viewed as the first people to have set foot on the moon. Just as Hillary and Norgay climbed the mountain together, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon together.

Well if you go down that route you end up having to consider all of the scientists in NASA and basically everyone who contributed to the moon landing.

Armstrong was the first man... that's just the way the cards fell. Somebody had to be the first.

Whatever about Aldrin, poor Michael Collins gets completely forgotten in the whole story but that's just life. At least Aldrin did get to walk on the moon.

0